LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – The Russian-backed eastern Ukrainian rebel region of Luhansk said on Sunday it may hold a referendum on joining Russia, drawing a warning from Kyiv that any such vote would have no legal basis and trigger a stronger international response.
Zelensky, the heroic defender of the people, according to Western propaganda, states here plainly that he would refuse to recognize a popular vote to decide if the separatist regions should join Russia or not.
A vote in favor of Russia would be “fake,” for some reason. So much for Ukrainian democracy.
Compare the measured words of the Chinese leader with Biden’s and NATO’s increasingly vituperative tone. Consider his emphasis on dialogue and negotiation and the need for ensuring the relative security of all parties, not just the absolute security of one.
Apparently that label fits a whole swathe of dissident blogs/sites that are generally against the endless printing of money, against banker crimes and corruption, and against war without end:
3) Check to see whether the social-media account/commenter/outlet has a history of generally echoing the Russian propaganda “line” by using themes, arguments, talking points, images, and other content similar to those used by obvious Russian propaganda outlets. These themes include:
How wonderful, powerful, innocent, and righteous Russia and Russia’s friends are: Putin, Donald Trump, Bashar al-Assad, Syria, Iran, China, radical political parties in the US and Europe, etc. Investigate this by searching for mentions of, for example, “russia”, on their site by Googling for “site:whateversite.com russia”, and seeing what comes up.
How terrible, weak, aggressive, and corrupt the the opponents of Russia and their friends are: The US, Obama, Hillary Clinton, the EU, Angela Merkel, NATO, Ukraine, Jewish people, US allies, the “mainstream media”, and democrats, the center-right or center-left, and moderates of all stripes. Investigate this by searching for mentions of, for example, “NATO”, on their site by Googling for “site:whateversite.com NATO” and seeing what comes up.
An obvious bias towards Russia and Russian-backed policy in foreign affairs, including:
How fantastic Brexit and Ukrainian/Georgian separatism is, but how terrible Chechen separatists are,
How advanced Russian technology is, and how dangerous Western technology is,
How great it is when Western secrets get exposed, but how terrible it is when Russian ones do,
How militarily powerful Russia and their friends are, and how weak and craven Russia’s enemies and their friends are, etc.
How dangerous standing up to Russia would be: It would inevitably result in “World War 3”, nuclear devastation, etc, and regardless of who shot first or is bombing civilians where now, would be the West’s fault. Russian propaganda never suggests it would just result in a Cold War 2 and Russia’s eventual peaceful defeat, like the last time.
Pre-emptive discouragement of critical analysis: Assertions about them “having the truth”, or the need to “wake up the sheeple”, or how the “mainstream media” can’t be trusted.
Hyperbolic alarmism, anti-Western conspiracist insinuations, “Eurasianism”, racism, gold-standard nuttery and attacks on the US dollar, 9/11-trutherism, anti-Semitism, anti-“globalism”, anti-vax/anti-GMO paranoia, and generally ridiculous over-the-top assertions, which cites Russian propaganda outlets as “evidence”.
Really?That’s quite a lot of dissenting opinion to fit into one tent.
If I don’t like GMO foods that’s a RUSSIAN position?
Anti-globalism is RUSSIAN?
9/11 research is RUSSIAN?
The gold standard is RUSSIAN?
Look, bring back the Elders of ADL please. They were easy to figure out.
This is too, but in case it isn’t, here’s my totally free public service announcement:
Say the unwashed masses opened their eyes and said, yes, Virginia, there is a New World Order and it’s run by elite secret societies, Jewish banking families, Jesuits, European aristocrats, Nazis, Zionists, Fascists, and Communists who maybe were always the same thing, only we got fooled by the language….
THEN MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, it makes sense to switch our language around.
I mean, think about it.
If you keep shouting ANTI-SEMITE! at everyone, the proles start asking what’s a Semite? and next thing you know people are googling Khazaria, checking out mitochondrial DNA research, and liking Klaus Schwab threads on Twitter.
… Instead, what if the powers-that-be backed up and changed the binary to WEST versus RUSSIA?
That is, amazingly, the same switch that Big Bad Vlad pulled off in Russia, substituting a traditional anti-Western discourse for pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist anti-Semitism, to pull Russians together.
You’d think that would earn him some brownie points from our overlords.
Revolver News [h/t LRC] explains why, with the refusal of the media establishment to admit that it blatantly and concertedly lied about the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop and dismissed it as Russian propaganda, the “Russian disinformation” label has replaced “racism” or “sexism” as the state-of-the-art term in cancel culture…
Why? Revolver argues it is because national security is a reason that allows the harshest repressive measures.
Well, that has always been true.
Some twenty years ago, political dissidents or even just free-thinkers were labeled “domestic terrorists,” a label which also invoked national security. Then there was the War on Terror and dissidents got called “Jihadis” or “Islamofascists”.
So the “Russian disinfo” label is NOT some new line being crossed. It’s the same old tired ploy….and actually not nearly as effective as “public health hazard” which can get you into quarantine camp, have you forcibly injected with poisons, and hospitalized against your will. I’ll take jail over that.
Anyway, Revolver recommends the following:
[with my comments on each recommendation below]
1. Never believe the “disinformation” scam ever again, for any reason. The intelligence services have entirely forfeited any and all public trust on this topic. At this very moment, hundreds of Republican lawmakers, pundits, and D.C. creatures are being herded like cattle into supporting greater censorship of Russia, China, or anyone “supporting” them. This is a grievous blunder. Indeed, lower-level establishment flunkies and stooges will only have themselves to blame when these new powers are turned back against them. Of course, the ability to wield these tools like a weapon over a cowed populace is exactly the real purpose of expanding such powers in the first place.
[Lila: Now, hmmmm. Whom would that help? Never is too strong. Do you mean to say no other country or power will ever utilize disinformation against us? What if the WEF or the EU employs disinformation, may we say so? Baby, bathwater, etc.]
2. Take the news out of the press’ hands. In hindsight, it was clearly a mistake for Rudy Giuliani to try and carefully release the laptop’s contents through press outlets. The story trickled out too slowly, and it was too easy for the press and Big Tech to unite in simply shutting out the New York Post entirely. If the laptop’s entire contents had simply been uploaded online for anybody to read, a la Wikileaks, suppressing the story would have been much harder, verging on impossible.
[Lila: And if you do upload it online, who do you suppose allows visibility on the net? The material could lie there and not be read by anyone. Actually, a couple of videos of Hunter were uploaded online and that’s where I saw them. That doesn’t seem to have made a difference. The point is the general public still assesses the credibility of information based on who puts it out: how credentialed or well-regarded or prestigious, not on the merits. Wikileaks itself was initially promoted via a massive concerted effort of all the major media organs….just search Wikileaks on this blog.]
3. Defund the intelligence state. America’s intelligence agencies have essentially gone rogue. They spied on the Trump campaign in 2016 and sabotaged President Trump internally from 2017 onward. They constantly deliver preposterous lies in the guise of “expertise”, which is then used to justify mass censorship and the stripping of Americans’ rights. Oh, and they’re the same group behind warrantless espionage and the Iraq War and so much else. The intelligence agencies have become one of the chief impediments to American liberty, and they have declared American nationalists, populists, and conservatives a de facto enemy class. Breaking the power of these agencies should be the primary political goal of all decent Americans in the years to come. A good blueprint for a future Republican presidency? Declassify everything, so agencies can no longer conceal their blunders, lies, and outright crimes under the cloak of “national security.”
[Lila: Now, this I can fully endorse. Knowing the past is the best way to handle the future.]
J.K. Rowling, the overhyped author of the block-buster witchcraft-made-wholesome-for-your-kids Harry Potter series, which I have never read and never intend to, based on the TV scenes I’ve occasionally had to sit through, decides that she doesn’t want Putin in her fan club.
All to the good.
Putin’s need to show he is a good liberal and Judeophile at all timesneeds a little ribbing.
Putin, like Trump, would not have come to power if he had not made his deals with the Zionist/Jewish elites that rule us.
That’s a cold fact. Whether he establishes his own power center and a viable cultural and economic alternative to the current world order is the issue.
Selectively focusing on one humanitarian crisis in the area while ignoring others preceding it for strategic and political reasons is the same modus operandi the West has used in Ukraine.
Ethiopia has come under unprecedented pressure from the U.S. ever since it commenced a military operation in its northern Tigray Region last November. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered the armed forces to respond to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which used to be the most powerful faction of the former ruling party, after it attacked a military barracks. Addis Ababa now officially considers the TPLF to be a terrorist group. It fell out with PM Abiy after initially facilitating his rise to power as a result of disagreements over his fast-moving socio-political reforms……..
….The U.S. and its allies claim that Ethiopia is carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, which Addis Ababa, of course, denies. This set the basis upon which the U.S. began to sanction the country. The first sanctions were imposed in late May to target Ethiopian officials as well as some of their Eritrean allies who, the U.S. claimed, were supporting them in their military campaign. The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) pulled out of Tigray a month later in June, claiming that this unilateral move would facilitate the international community’s relief efforts in the war-torn region that had attracted so much global attention.
The conflict did not end, however, but actually expanded. The TPLF felt emboldened to invade the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara, parts of which it continues to occupy. Addis Ababa suspected that the group was receiving various equipment and other forms of support under the cover of UN aid shipments. It also accused the TPLF of manipulating international perceptions about the region’s humanitarian crisis in order to generate more support and increase pressure on the Ethiopian government. PM Abiy published an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden last month, urging him to reconsider his country’s policy towards the conflict…….
This American hybrid war on Ethiopia is waged in various ways that deserve further study. They closely resemble the American hybrid war on Syria in the sense that the U.S. is using humanitarian pretexts to justify meddling in the country’s internal affairs. Its motivations to backstab its regional ally are entirely self-interested and zero-sum. The U.S. is uncomfortable with PM Abiy’s geopolitical balancing between Washington and Beijing. Although the former TPLF-led government was also close to China, the U.S. likely expected PM Abiy to distance Ethiopia from it, considering the pressure that Washington exerts upon its partners to do so…….
This leads to the next motivation for the American Hybrid War on Ethiopia, which is to return the TPLF to power there, if not in a national capacity, then at least in its home region….
…..The U.S. “humanitarian imperialism”, as one can now call its policy against Ethiopia, is very pernicious. It focuses solely on the humanitarian crisis in the Tigray Region while ignoring the ones that the TPLF caused in the neighboring Afar and Amhara regions. This policy also manipulates perceptions about the situation in Tigray in order to delegitimize PM Abiy, the ENDF and the political cause of national unity that they are fighting for. The purpose is to encourage more members of the international community to pressure Ethiopia to the point where it finally feels compelled to politically capitulate. This policy, however, has proven to be counterproductive.”
“The Tigray conflict has motivated the West to exert pressure and thereby control Ethiopia that aspires and have been pursuing an independent foreign policy,” he said.
He said the US and Europe are concerned about the growing influence of China and that looks like the reason behind pressuring Ethiopia.
“Chinese direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia had reached US$4 billion and bilateral trade had grown to $5.4 billion,” he added.
At the UNSC, Beijing vetoed the US and European resolution aimed at sanctioning and condemning Ethiopia over the Tigray crisis.
He said both countries (China and Ethiopia) were well aware of the motive and have been now upgrading their political relations by conducting a higher-level political meeting.
“The pressure is pushing Ethiopia to find trustworthy friends in the form of China, Russia, and other developing nations. Africa must embrace the new world order and resist humiliating western demands,” said Wuhibegzer.”
The Empire of Lies has finally met the language it understands: power.
The video above is of a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile, apparently used for the first time on March 17, 2022 in Ukraine. Since then, there have been reports of the launch of at least one other hypersonic missile.
What does it mean, Empire of Lies?
Don’t all states lie? Undoubtedly. But here, the propaganda network is so thorough and total that reality vanishes into a black-hole, replaced by simulation.
This is characteristic of totalitarian states, whether flaunting leftist symbols, like the former Soviet Union, Red China, and the current EU; or rightist ones, like Hitler’s Germany; or both, as in the current USA.
As an example, I am again linking the chapter on EMET AND MEGA that I wrote in 2005, some years before Jeffrey Epstein, a lynchpin of MEGA’s espionage in the US, became a public name because of his sex-trafficking in Florida. The chapter was deleted by my editor, who claimed it was irrelevant to my book.
Realizing it was being censored, I published the cut chapter on this blog, which I began at the end of 2007.
So the information has been up here from 2008 onward and is probably one of the reasons for the blacklisting and trouble I have received at this blog.
You will recognize in the chapter the network that was explored by the alternative media only a full DECADE later and is only now recognized by the mainstream media. Yet the material has been up here for 15 years, easily available for anyone to link, cite, or question me about.
Intelligence hacks of various levels and groups like the ADL have looked at it; so also editors and writers at sites at which I used to publish.
Have any of them cited or linked to me for the information they pick up from here? Did they even run with it? No. With the exception of a few who know who they are and whom I don’t wish to embarrass or injure by naming, they did not.
That is 15 years of silence from people who could have spoken up and saved humanity some pain. No one put a gun to their head to silence them. They censored themselves, which is characteristic in totalitarian states. Thus, the population itself is not completely innocent. Blood is on its hands.
If citizens in Russia or Ukraine or Iraq or Syria or Yemen must pay the price for the crimes and blunders of their rulers, then surely the same applies to the useful idiots of the global Zionist ethnostate, of which the USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary.
And if Russian hypersonic missiles are the only way to deliver that message to the satrapy known now and forever as the EMPIRE OF LIES, then so be it.
Madeleine Albright, who championed a more “muscular” interventionism in foreign policy and is notorious for having defended the deaths of half a million Iraqi children under sanctions as “worth it,” has died, ostensibly of cancer, at the age of 84.